Readers' Journal

Editor’s note: Two FAN readers, Mavis Sare and Frank Tortorich, cited a historical inaccuracy in our Summer 2017 issue about who killed three men in 1848 near Silver Lake (“A day at the lake,” page 14). Mr. Tortorich sent this letter to

By Suzy Hopkins Donald Trump’s indictment of the news media as “the enemy of the American people” got me thinking. In essence, the press is supposed to be a representative of the American people — people who for reasons of

Read the full story of Charlie (a pseudonym used to protect her privacy) in the Winter 2016-’17 issue of Friends and Neighbors Magazine, available at these locations and many more. Read more from Charlie online in Readers’ Journal. By Charlie Rioux Greetings: This

Remembering an “Old Black Sheep” By Bill Edwards On October 23rd, 1976, I was shuffling papers on my desk in the headquarters of the California wing of the Civil Air Patrol, an auxiliary of the United States Air Force. I

When July 4th, 1918 rolled around, the idle aircrews decided to celebrate by setting a bunch of petrol (gasoline) containers on fire in the middle of the airfield. The next morning they were summoned to the English base commander’s headquarters to suffer his admonitions.

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Mr. Brandon, 91, wrote this in April 2016 as an addendum to his memoir about his WWII service in the US Navy as a member of VPB-151, Crew #6. He hopes to reach either any surviving veterans from that squadron

Readers’ Journal is a place where readers of Friends and Neighbors Magazine or visitors to the FAN website can share their own stories, poems, personal reflections and photos. Email submissions to editor@seniorfan.com. Submissions will be edited only for significant grammar or spelling errors